Undreaming Wetiko: Breaking the Spell of the Nightmare Mind-Virus

 
 

Undreaming Wetiko builds on, amplifies and complements Levy’s previous two books on wetiko. This book starts off by investigating how the process of becoming triggered, wounded, neurotic, and/or falling into suffering can help us more understand the workings of this mind-virus in a way that transforms our struggles into opportunities for healing and awakening. In so doing, it illumines the genesis and source of wetiko—unhealed multi-generational ancestral abuse and trauma—which gets acted out, passed down and propagated through the human family lineage.

In this volume, Levy highlights one of the primary archetypes currently activated in the collective unconscious of humanity—the wounded healer/shamanic archetype—pointing out that we are all wounded healers/shamans-in-training. He introduces the inner guide—a daemon/angel—another archetypal form that lives within us as an ally in our encounter with the equally daemonic energy of wetiko. In this book Levy draws from the work of C. G. Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich and Nicolas Berdyaev.

Because wetiko can only be seen when we recognize that—just like a dream—the inner and outer worlds synchronistically reflect each other, there is a chapter in which Levy explores the nature of synchronicity. Levy also elucidates the “quantum” nature of wetiko, showing how understanding wetiko’s entangled wave/particle quantum nature helps us to come to grips with the elusive nature of the mind-virus, as well as shedding light on the quantum nature of both the world and ourselves.

 

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Inner Traditions, May 23, 2023

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One of the most brilliant and important reads of our day—a prophetic treatise that calls us to open our eyes to the cunning, potentially fatal forces at work in the world. A must read for any person who wonders about the future of our species and wants to harness their own unique powers to serve the collective alchemy of this critical era.
— Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Ph.D., Jungian Psychotherapist and author of Wounds into Wisdom
Provides a fascinating exploration of how to find the light that is hidden within the dark side of our human experience. Paul Levy offers one of the finest riffs on understanding the complexity of which we are composed and how to understand and work with it, thus lending new meaning and strategy to the evolutionary agenda.
— Jean Houston Ph.D., author of The Possible Human
Paul Levy is one of our most indispensable spiritual teachers. Levy continues to explore and unmask the wetiko mind-virus of greed and hubris that threatens the human enterprise but also, with unique force, opens up for us ways of ‘undreaming’ its power so we can live free from its contamination. This is an indispensable manual for all serious seekers.
— Andrew Harvey, coauthor of Radical Regeneration
Paul Levy is one of our clearest visionaries about things that truly matter.
— Larry Dossey, M.D.


Endorsements

Paul Levy’s work on wetiko is one of the most ground-breaking revelations of our time. Undreaming Wetiko is infused with Paul’s insights and personal experiences spanning over decades, weaving together quantum physics, Jungian shadow work, shamanism, trauma work, and drawing from various spiritual & esoteric traditions. Paul gives us a comprehensive understanding of why the world is the way it is, while he also brilliantly shows us the way out and what needs to be done before we destroy ourselves.
— Bernhard Guenther, PsychoSpiritual Coach, Writer, and host of The Cosmic Matrix podcast
Paul Levy emerges from that ancient prophetic tradition of gnostics with the uncanny ability to transmute the poison of our experience into medicine for the soul. This book is an unflinching look at the underworld all around us, with all of the peril and the promise that implies. It leaves the reader not just with the possibility that enlightenment might exist in and through the ocean of darkness that surrounds and assails us, it offers us a bridge, a boat, and a ship to the other side.
— Rev. Michael Ellick, community organizer and Christian Minister
This book serves as an essential guidepost to help us reclaim our creative power from the insidious grip of the wetiko mind-virus. With this book, Paul Levy seals his role as a master alchemist serving as the lead spokesperson of an emerging consciousness that not only identifies the root of our collective shadow but also gives us the courage to overcome it. There is no way ‘out’ but in, and creative imagination is the key to ‘undreaming wetiko.’ Read this book and you will never be the same!
— Stephanie South, president of the Foundation for the Law of Time and author of Accessing Your Multidimensional Self
Undreaming Wetiko is urgently needed medicine in these perilous times. In this magnificent work Paul Levy provides a powerful beacon by which we can recognize the dreamlike nature of our existence and lucidly embody our role as co-creators. His revelations help us to understand the trance of delusion and suffering that pervades the human world and empowers us to transmute this darkness into the light of liberation and knowledge of our intrinsic nature.
— Troy Lush, composer and founder of EarthSongs
When we look upon wetiko with the light of love, we see the illusion, but it only vanishes when our heart demands justice of our mind. Thanks yet again to Paul Levy; Underarming Wetiko has inspired me to live from my heart so that wetiko has no use for my mind.
— Paul Chek, Holistic Health Practitioner, founder of Chek Institute
Through his wide ranging, comprehensive research, deep and fearless inquiry, and the direct lived experience of his subject, wetiko, Levy has written a book of such power and conviction that just by reading it I was changed.

As if giving a transmission, this book went straight into my heart, ignited the spirit and imparted in me a grounded sense of responsibility, but also of agency. Isn’t this the very thing that we all need to experience right now? That even though we are in a precarious condition we also have everything within us that we need to turn the tide.

I can’t thank Paul enough for forging what must have been a treacherous, lonely and also divinely guided path, and by writing about it, as a vanguard of the journey to wholeness, that we all must take.
— Gwen Burns, wellness counselor
As our society becomes more aware of the concept of a mind-virus, Paul has given us deep insight into the nature of wetiko, ‘the nightmare mind-virus’ that is at the core of humanity’s greatest challenges. In Undreaming Wetiko, he drills down into the nature of wetiko and more importantly expands our awareness of the ways we can identify, fight back, and work to save our collective soul.
— Matt Cadenelli, long-time member of one of Paul’s Awaken in the Dream Groups
If you’ve learned about wetiko, and painfully observed its effects in our current world gone mad, and you’ve wondered what you can do about it, this book is for you. May Paul Levy’s brilliant work inspire us to undream wetiko and bring forth a future that works for all humanity as well as the more than human world. It’s time.
— Mertie Pateros, Ho’oponopono guide
Undreaming Wetiko is a deep and rewarding dive into exposing, elucidating, and dispelling the insidious and pervasive tendency for self-deception that haunts the human mind. This book establishes a solid foundation for the emergence and development of the burgeoning new field of wetiko studies. Such a field of research should consist of ongoing investigations in order to bring to light the pernicious and shapeshifting mental parasite of wetiko that plagues our minds and thereby afflicts and impoverishes our world.
— Cory Parker, long-time member of one of Paul’s Awaken in the Dream Groups